how do you get the fish out of the way

[StingRob]

You can only wait or take several shots, each shot will give you more or less decency -pick the best.

hi all
just looking back through the pictures i took on my trip to the maldives, i'm more than a little disapointed in how my pictures came out, i took just under 500, i guess most are down to my lack of experience in under water photography, and perhaps my camera might have something to do with it
but how do you get the fish out of the way, i was really hoping this would have come out OK, it was towards the end of my trip, i'd spent a lot of time talking with other diver with camera's, about how to get a decent picture, spent a while looking and waiting for the shrimp to be brave enough to come out for a picture, snap, ahah i thought, a picture of a shrimp

well not quite

i have called this one damn fish

guess i'll just have to go back, sounds like a good reason to me

 

[liquid_lunch]

There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
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LOL...... i like to think that I work a land job to support my "habit"


lol

 

[hyaku]

hi there
and thanks, this was taken with a sony p5, 3.3 mp camera in a sony housing, no strobe, perhaps i should look into a difuser of some kind.........

hello rubbachicken

Bit late in answering but I use a similar camera. Here's some of my results.

http://marine.hyoho.com/orange.JPG

http://marine.hyoho.com/moalinf.html

Up to now I find yellow and orange the worst to get focus. I guess you camera in wondering what to focus on? You have to get close to let it make up its mind. I use the pinpoint focus and place the dot on the object. I dont use flash except for night shots. I have a small diffusor in the housing but a thick white envelope cut and stuck inside works wonders. Simple but effective. I use a video light for some of my shots. But if you take anything on sand, very light coral or silver in colour using the camera flash it just wont work out.

Best of luck.